Diluted Zen

Lost a button
Split my jeans
Ain't superstitious
Don't care what it means

Rock me like it
I'm your Baby
Rock me like it
I'm your Tramp

All we are
Is all we is
That's all I'll say
About that

Underrated

Simply stated, you underrated me.

Delicious pawn, you thought you man enough to snare me.

House of mirrors to entertain me,

But I just look like this.

My doll face is my smoky disguise.

I rob the rich to feed the poor.

I just look like this.

You knew your way through your mirrored maze,

But smoke and mirrors are my favorite game.

If you want back on top, man, you'd better

Readjust your aim.

I'm robbing you now to feed me more.

You'd better ask somebody.

Now, who's zooming who?

You think me a dime,

and maybe one time that's all that I was,

But honeychild's feeding the Lord of the Flies,

And wouldn't think twice about dropping you.

I'm robbing him now to feed you more.

Simply stated, you underrated me.

I just look like this.

Kitty Cat Song

Sittin' outside
Kitty cat
Sittin' outside
Kitty cat
Sittin' outside
Kitty cat
Don't feed her
She'll follow you home

Kitty cat
Likes the warm cream
Kitty cat
Likes the warm cream
Kitty cat
Likes the warm cream
Don't pet her
She'll never go on on

Friday

Maybe I'll take a nap now

Maybe I'll get drunk and dance now,

Or maybe I'll get drunk and write

Maybe I'll do some yoga,

And have a little green tea

Maybe those clouds will rain now

Maybe the sky will cry

Maybe that's not thunder at all

Maybe I was born just to die

Mourning

Biting cold between my teeth
Searing heat behind my eyes
This missing you has me
Perplexed.

Confounded
by strawberries' sweetness
and the moon's pale meekness.
I can't taste luxury
Until I exhale.

Dark smoky haze
Instead of a blaze
When I watch for a face that I know.

Vodka or brandy or
Rootbeer or candy
I'm empty as soon as I'm full.

The end.

Glass

Glass on glass:
This world is not my own.
Through smoky nights of jazz and raindrops,
I've tried to squeeze me in between
This glass on glass
World that's not my own.

Paned immobile:
This globe is all I own.
Pale white wings as smooth as skin,
This ashen halo binds my feet
Of glass on glass.
This globe is all I own.

Glimpse of Peace

Sittin' still through every heartache.
Sittin' still through every piece
Of grief and every bit of
Every tiny shred of every little peace

I can find on this
Island of Sad and Far Away Time.

Writhing like a serpent.
Piercing like a knife.
Rolling through me like the
Black of all the darkest nights.

But every tiny moment
Of the briefest glimpse of peace
Takes me through the rough spots --
Gives me hope I'll be redeemed.

Tea Time

I am time and time is me,
And broken both are we.

We are

Splintered like the china pattern
Shattered at my feet.
My days are lonely fragments
Of the life I used to keep.

Tinker bells and fairy tales once
Danced through every hall,
But now it's time for tea for one.
I'm climbing every wall

Of this cage, cage, cage.
I'm stuck in this age
Of tea for one, and tea for one
Ain't sweet at all,
So time will never be for tea.

Nowhere

Woke up this morning with the whole wide world at my feet.

Woke up this morning with the whole wide world at my feet.

Trouble is my feet forgot their step.

Trouble is my feet forgot their step.

Think I'll tag along with the nowhere man and his nowhere clan

'cause these pretty toes forgot where they goes.

Guess I'm part of this nowhere man and his nowhere clan

'cause this gypsy rose forgot where she began.

I think I smelled the sun, but I forgot today to breathe.

I think I tasted breeze, but I forgot today to eat.

Been sleep walking with the nowhere man and his nowhere clan, and

Today I forgot to be.

Dreamt of You

Dreamt of you last night.

I know 'cause I stayed up cryin'.

Dreamt of you last night.

I know 'cause I woke up smilin'.

How'd this lullabye get so far

Away from home and all I know?

How'd this dark sky sleep-a-bye

Wander off without me?

Run, Run, Run

Around the block and back.

Zoom, Zoom, Zoom

To every moon and back.

Wander off without me

Up all night a cryin',

But then I'll fall, and then I'll dream,

and always dream about you.

REevaluating

Maybe this watchin-tha-grass-grow

Watchin-tha-kids-play

Rockin-on-tha-back-porch

Life

Ain't for me

Always a princess.

Always a pea.

Queen of the willed,

Waiting for tea.

Staying Fast

Waiting on my nowhere land of bliss

To find and pull me once again

Suck me under

Choke my breath

You can't be too far

Mama's too afraid to fly

Not without those nowhere wings

Not without those sky shoes

Mama's not flying - just idling on this

Island of real

Come on back here, nowhere wings

Mama's sittin' still

Come on back here, sky shoes

Mama's staying fast

Gonna sit here and wait

For all the world to pass

Home can't be too far

Day is fading fast

Home can't be too far

Mama's staying fast

Way, Way Down

Walking down

This shuffle-trip-a-walk way

Way

Way

Down

And out

Of nowhere

Skin my knee

High is the grass

From way

Way

Way

Down and out

Or in and about

A million miles

From here

Or there

Or anywhere

Oh where

Oh where

Has my little world gone

Oh where

Oh where

Could I be

Fade

I don't hurt no more.

Don't hurt no more.

New age gotta fade

I ne'er wanted to find,

But I don't hurt no more.

Stones fly and wings bleed,

But I got this fade

I ne'er tried to find,

And I don't hurt no more.